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| A historical document of some variety that was created at or near the time of the events studied, by a known person with direct experience on the topic being studied. |
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| Historical Context: The political, social, cultural, and economic setting for a particular idea or event. In order to better understand something in history, one looks at its context--those things which surround it in time and place and which give it its meaning |
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| Writings by historians and others who use available sources to interpret the past. They provide analysis and summary, placing events, people, and evidence in historical context and asking questions about their meaning and significance |
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| The branch of social science that deals with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management. |
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| An economic system in which capital and land, the non-labor factors of production (also known as the means of production), are privately owned; labor, goods and resources are traded in markets; and profit, after taxes, is distributed to the owners or investors. |
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| An economic system that abolishes private ownership. A political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society. A theory where classes are abolished and property is commonly controlled, as well as a political philosophy and social movement that advocates and aims to create such a society. |
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| The state of a society being without authoritarians or a governing body. The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government. |
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| The political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them. Majority rule. |
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| Any of the various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods and services. |
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| Rights of all people with respect to protection of the law and to the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property especially without regard to race, creed, color, gender and disabilities |
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| The supreme law of the United States. It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of the United States of America and the federal government of the United States. |
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| Mandated by the Constitution and directly related to the system of Checks and Balances. Separation of powers requires that the government be separated into three branches (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial) and that those branches cooperate in decision making and have the power to hold the others accountable. |
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| A person whose political philosophy is generally based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change. Conservatives tend to support lower taxes, limited government regulation of business and investing, a strong national defense, and individual financial responsibility for personal needs, such as retirement, income, or health-care coverage. |
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| A person whose political philosophy is based on principles of social and political liberalism, such as a belief in progress, in the essential goodness of the human race, in the autonomy of the individual, and in standing for the protection of political and civil liberties. Generally supporting the Democratic Party, drawing support from working class people, women and minorities; and has traditionally supported expanding the level of government participation in the society and economy. |
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| A political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others the same liberty. The view that government’s role should be minimal, rarely interfering in the personal lives of private citizens. |
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